Questions tagged [amazon-route53]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

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Why can't I create an Alias Resource Record Set for an EC2 instance

I have been working with AWS for over a year, setting up EC2 instances, domains, ELBs, etc. When I want to assign a subdomain to an EC2 instance, I have to create an elastic IP (that I pay for), then assign a CNAME record to that elastic IP. When I…
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Is it possible to specify rule processing order in Amazon Route 53?

I'd like to setup a catch-all for my subdomains: *.domain.com. CNAME domain.com But, a few specific subdomains should have their own entry: mail.domain.com. A X.X.X.X *.domain.com. CNAME domain.com The problem is, how can…
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AWS Route 53 Latency Based service for non AWS Instances

We need to use one of our own dedicated servers in conjunction with the Route 53 service alongside our AWS instances. Is latency based DNS supported for non AWS IP Addresses?
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ec2: assign cname to elastic ip

Couldn't find this exact same question so here it goes: I'm trying to setup a CNAME record to an elastic ip linked to a ec2-instance, but this fails. When deassociating the elastic-ip from the instance and linking it to the public dns of the…
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EC2 IP Address : How can a web server identify db server ip address at startup?

I have a simple 2-tier arrangement - one web server (Websphere hosted on windows), and one oracle db server. The web server needs to connect the oracle database server. I am trying to write a script that Brings up a EC2 instance with the Oracle…
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Setting SPF record on Amazon Route 53 with cli53 tool

My domain is already with Amazon Route 53 and I can use the cli53 command line tool quite happily to maintain it. We are moving to use Amazon SES and I would like to add an SPF record to the domain, as per the docs... we have no prior existing…
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Is there a decent GUI for Amazon Route 53?

Because frankly it's a bit tricky without...
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How resolve Route53 private dns name inside EC2 instances?

In AWS, I have created a VPC lets call it "myVPC". I have 2 instances inside a public subnet in myVPC with auto-set private IP addresses below: 10.0.0.10 10.0.0.11 ICMP is open by setting correct Security Groups to the instances. I created a…
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dig output missing answer section

I recently got a new domain (lets call it testdomain.extample) from Route53 on Amazon. I further have a classic load balancer from AWS that I want requests to be forwarded to when somebody visits www.testdomain.example. Under hosted zones on Route53…
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AWS Route53 & Lambda: Redirecting Naked HTTP requests to HTTPS WWW for a serverless application

Problem I have a site running on a 'serverless' AWS Lambda function. Route53 routes requests to the API Gateway which connects to the Lambda function. The problem with this is that you can't setup traditional server redirects. Example As an…
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How to use external DNS in conjunction with an AWS Elastic Load Balancer?

I'm setting up an Application Elastic Load Balancer, and I have it pointing to a few EC2 instances. I'm now trying to get my head around how to set up the DNS, given that my DNS is hosted externally from AWS. I understand that I can use the cname…
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How should I configure a CAA DNS record for use with the AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Route 53 now allows the creation of CAA records to restrict the certificate authorities that may issue a certificate for a domain. I'd like to use an issue directive to restrict the issue of certificates for my domain like in the following…
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nslookup fails but PowerShell's resolve-dnsname works

This is not a domain I have anything to do with, but I don't understand what's going on. The nameservers for sciencedaily.com are: ns-1414.awsdns-48.org. ns-1618.awsdns-10.co.uk. ns-300.awsdns-37.com. ns-695.awsdns-22.net. If I run nslookup and…
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AWS route53 second level SSL cert wildcard

I use aws route53 with a wildcard SSL certificate: the certificate allows: *.domain.com In order to allow users to access both: "domain.com" and "www.domain.com" I have to setup individual records for each. This does not bother me, but I have a…
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DNS isues with AWS Route53 hosted zone / nameservers

I set up a set of white-label nameservers at AWS Route53, following both the AWS docs as well as a write-up I found from an AWS employee. All seemed to work fine -- I have never had an issue reaching a test site I use, with those white-label…
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